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dates in gnulib ChangeLog entries


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: dates in gnulib ChangeLog entries
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 18:36:25 -0700
User-agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux)

I noticed that recent changes (merging from gettext, for example)
added many ChangeLog entries whose dates disagree with when the change
was installed into gnulib.  Hence gnulib's ChangeLog file appears not
to be in reverse chronological order.  This confused me.

When I merge changes from coreutils, I use the style indicated below,
which preserves the date of the original change, while also making it
clear when the change was merged into gnulib.  This makes the gnulib
changelog easier to read, at least for me.

Any objection if I do something similar for the gettext etc. ChangeLog
entries in gnulib?

2006-07-03  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>

        Merge from coreutils.

        2006-06-30  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>

        * xstrtod.c (XSTRTOD, DOUBLE): New macros, so that we can support
        both double and long double versions.
        (XSTRTOD): Renamed from xstrtod.  Use DOUBLE internally.
        * xstrtold.c: New file.
        * xstrtod.h (xstrtold): New decl.

        2006-05-22  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>

        * filemode.c (setst): Remove.
        (strmode): Rewrite to avoid setst.  This makes the code shorter,
        (arguably) clearer, and the generated code is a bit smaller on my
        Debian GNU/Linux stable x86 host.

        ....




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